Deuteronomy 27:11

THE MESSAGE

That day Moses commanded: After you've crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. And these will stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
On that day Moses commanded the people,

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe charged the people the same day, saying,

King James Version
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

Lexham English Bible
And Moses charged the people on that day, saying,

English Standard Version
That day Moses charged the people, saying,

New Century Version
That day Moses also gave the people this command:

New English Translation
Moreover, Moses commanded the people that day:

Amplified Bible
Moses also commanded the people that day, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Moses also commanded the people on that day, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Moses also commanded the people on that day, saying,

Contemporary English Version
That same day, Moses gave them the following instructions:

Complete Jewish Bible
(v) That same day Moshe commissioned the people as follows:

Darby Translation
And Moses gave commandment to the people the same day, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
That day Moses also told the people,

George Lamsa Translation
And Moses charged the people that same day, saying,

Good News Translation
Then Moses said to the people of Israel,

Literal Translation
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses charged the people the same daye, and sayde:

American Standard Version
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

Bible in Basic English
That same day Moses said to the people,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses charged the people the same day, saying:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses charged the people on that day, saying,

English Revised Version
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
On that day Moses commanded the people:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moises comaundide to the puple in that day,

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses commandeth the people on that day, saying,

Update Bible Version
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

World English Bible
Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

New King James Version
And Moses commanded the people on the same day, saying,

New Living Translation
That same day Moses also gave this charge to the people:

New Life Bible
Moses told the people that same day,

New Revised Standard
The same day Moses charged the people as follows:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses commanded the people on that day, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses commanded the people in that day, saying:

Revised Standard Version
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses also charged the people on that day, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹¹That day Moses commanded: After you've crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. And these will stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. ¹⁴The Levites, acting as spokesmen and speaking loudly, will address Israel: God 's curse on anyone who carves or casts a god-image—an abomination to God made by a craftsman—and sets it up in secret. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who demeans a parent. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who misdirects a blind man on the road. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who interferes with justice due the foreigner, orphan, or widow. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with his father's wife; he has violated the woman who belongs to his father. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with an animal. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with his sister, the daughter of his father or mother. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with his mother-in-law. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who kills his neighbor in secret. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on whoever does not give substance to the words of this Revelation by living them. All respond: Yes. Absolutely.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:16 - charged

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses charged the people the same,.... That he gave the above orders to set up stones, and plaster them, and write the law on them, and build an altar in the same place, and offer sacrifices when come into the land of Canaan:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Joshua 8:32-35. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place.

Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13

The tribes appointed to stand on Gerizim to bless the people all sprang from the two wives of Jacob, Leah and Rachel. All the four tribes which sprang from the handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah are located on Ebal. But in order, as it would seem, to effect an equal division, two tribes are added to the latter from the descendants of the wives, that of Reuben, probably because he forfeited his primogeniture Genesis 49:4; and of Zebulun, apparently because he was the youngest son of Leah.

The transaction presents itself as a solemn renewal of the covenant made by God with Abraham and Isaac, but more especially with Jacob and his family. Accordingly the genealogical basis of the “twelve patriarchs” (compare Acts 7:12; Revelation 7:4 ff), the sons of Jacob, is here assumed. The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are merged in the name of Joseph, their father; and Levi regains on this occasion his place collaterally with the others. “The Levites” of Deuteronomy 27:14 are no doubt “the priests the Levites” (compareJoshua 8:33; Joshua 8:33), in whom the ministerial character attaching to the tribe was more particularly manifested. It is noteworthy that the group of tribes which stood on Gerizim far exceeded the other in numbers and in importance, thus perhaps indicating that even by the Law the blessing should at length prevail.

Deuteronomy 27:15

The “Amen” attested the conviction of the utterers that the sentences to which they responded were true, just, and certain; so in Numbers 5:22, and in our own Commination Office, which is modelled after this ordinance of Moses.

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

Twelve curses against transgressions of the covenant. The first eleven are directed against special sins which are selected by way of example, the last comprehensively sums up in general terms and condemns all and every offence against God’s Law. Compare the marginal references.